{"id":552,"date":"2002-05-22T14:01:42","date_gmt":"2002-05-22T22:01:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/05\/22\/hooray-for-slow-work-days\/"},"modified":"2022-03-07T10:26:59","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T18:26:59","slug":"hooray-for-slow-work-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/05\/22\/hooray-for-slow-work-days\/","title":{"rendered":"Hooray for slow work days"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:16147,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/books.guardian.co.uk\\\/news\\\/articles\\\/0,6109,711520,00.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/books.guardian.co.uk\\\/news\\\/articles\\\/0,6109,711520,00.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Things here are slow enough that I&#8217;m spending a little time bouncing around, and found something quite interesting &#8212; the <a href=\"http:\/\/books.guardian.co.uk\/news\/articles\/0,6109,711520,00.html\" title=\"Guardian Unlimited Books | The top 100 books of all time\">top 100 books of all time<\/a>, as chosen by 100 writers from 54 countries. The list follows &#8212; <strong>bolded<\/strong> titles are ones that I&#8217;ve actually read (though, admittedly, in some instances I read them as &#8216;childrens versions&#8217; years ago, and probably should go back and read the actual versions).<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Chinua Achebe, Nigeria, (b. 1930), <em>Things Fall Apart<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Hans Christian Andersen, Denmark, (1805-1875), <em>Fairy Tales and Stories<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Jane Austen, England, (1775-1817), <em>Pride and Prejudice<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Honore de Balzac, France, (1799-1850), <em>Old Goriot<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Samuel Beckett, Ireland, (1906-1989), Trilogy: <em>Molloy<\/em>, <em>Malone Dies<\/em>, <em>The Unnamable<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Giovanni Boccaccio, Italy, (1313-1375), <em>Decameron<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Jorge Luis Borges, Argentina, (1899-1986), <em>Collected Fictions<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Emily Bronte, England, (1818-1848), <em>Wuthering Heights<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Albert Camus, France, (1913-1960), <em>The Stranger<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Paul Celan, Romania\/France, (1920-1970), <em>Poems<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Louis-Ferdinand Celine, France, (1894-1961), <em>Journey to the End of the Night<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Spain, (1547-1616), <em>Don Quixote<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Geoffrey Chaucer, England, (1340-1400), <em>Canterbury Tales<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Joseph Conrad, England,(1857-1924), <em>Nostromo<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Dante Alighieri, Italy, (1265-1321), <em>The Divine Comedy<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Charles Dickens, England, (1812-1870), <em>Great Expectations<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Denis Diderot, France, (1713-1784), <em>Jacques the Fatalist and His Master<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Alfred Doblin, Germany, (1878-1957), <em>Berlin Alexanderplatz<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Fyodor M Dostoyevsky, Russia, (1821-1881), <em>Crime and Punishment<\/em>; <em>The Idiot<\/em>; <em>The Possessed<\/em>; <em>The Brothers Karamazov<\/em><\/li>\n<li>George Eliot, England, (1819-1880), <em>Middlemarch<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Ralph Ellison, United States, (1914-1994), <em>Invisible Man<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Euripides, Greece, (c 480-406 BC), <em>Medea<\/em><\/li>\n<li>William Faulkner, United States, (1897-1962), <em>Absalom, Absalom<\/em>; <em>The Sound and the Fury<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Gustave Flaubert, France, (1821-1880), <em>Madame Bovary<\/em>; <em>A Sentimental Education<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Federico Garcia Lorca, Spain, (1898-1936), <em>Gypsy Ballads<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Colombia, (b. 1928), <em>One Hundred Years of Solitude<\/em>; <em>Love in the Time of Cholera<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Gilgamesh<\/em>, Mesopotamia (c 1800 BC).<\/li>\n<li>Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Germany, (1749-1832), <em>Faust<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Nikolai Gogol, Russia, (1809-1852), <em>Dead Souls<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Gunter Grass, Germany, (b.1927), <em>The Tin Drum<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Joao Guimaraes Rosa, Brazil, (1880-1967), <em>The Devil to Pay in the Backlands<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Knut Hamsun, Norway, (1859-1952), <em>Hunger<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Ernest Hemingway, United States, (1899-1961), <em>The Old Man and the Sea<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Homer, Greece, (c 700 BC), <em>The Iliad<\/em> and <em>The Odyssey<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Henrik Ibsen, Norway (1828-1906), <em>A Doll&#8217;s House<\/em><\/li>\n<li>** <em>The Book of Job<\/em>, Israel. (600-400 BC). **<\/li>\n<li>James Joyce, Ireland, (1882-1941), <em>Ulysses<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Franz Kafka, Bohemia, (1883-1924), <em>The Complete Stories<\/em>; <em>The Trial<\/em>; <em>The Castle Bohemia<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Kalidasa, India, (c. 400), <em>The Recognition of Sakuntala<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Yasunari Kawabata, Japan, (1899-1972), <em>The Sound of the Mountain<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Nikos Kazantzakis, Greece, (1883-1957), <em>Zorba the Greek<\/em><\/li>\n<li>DH Lawrence, England, (1885-1930), <em>Sons and Lovers<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Halldor K Laxness, Iceland, (1902-1998), <em>Independent People<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Giacomo Leopardi, Italy, (1798-1837), <em>Complete Poems<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Doris Lessing, England, (b.1919), <em>The Golden Notebook<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Astrid Lindgren, Sweden, (1907-2002), <em>Pippi Longstocking<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Lu Xun, China, (1881-1936), <em>Diary of a Madman and Other Stories<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Mahabharata, India, (c 500 BC). Naguib Mahfouz, Egypt, (b. 1911), <em>Children of Gebelawi<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Thomas Mann, Germany, (1875-1955), <em>Buddenbrook<\/em>; <em>The Magic Mountain<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Herman Melville, United States, (1819-1891), <em>Moby Dick<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Michel de Montaigne, France, (1533-1592), <em>Essays<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Elsa Morante, Italy, (1918-1985), <em>History<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Toni Morrison, United States, (b. 1931), <em>Beloved<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Shikibu Murasaki, Japan, (N\/A), <em>The Tale of Genji Genji<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Robert Musil, Austria, (1880-1942), <em>The Man Without Qualities<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Vladimir Nabokov, Russia\/United States, (1899-1977), <em>Lolita<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Njaals Saga<\/em>, Iceland, (c 1300).<\/li>\n<li><strong>George Orwell, England, (1903-1950), <em>1984<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Ovid, Italy, (c 43 BC), <em>Metamorphoses<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Fernando Pessoa, Portugal, (1888-1935), <em>The Book of Disquiet<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Edgar Allan Poe, United States, (1809-1849), <em>The Complete Tales<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Marcel Proust, France, (1871-1922), <em>Remembrance of Things Past<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Francois Rabelais, France, (1495-1553), <em>Gargantua and Pantagruel<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Juan Rulfo, Mexico, (1918-1986), <em>Pedro Paramo<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Jalal ad-din Rumi, Iran, (1207-1273), <em>Mathnawi<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Salman Rushdie, India\/Britain, (b. 1947), <em>Midnight&#8217;s Children<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Sheikh Musharrif ud-din Sadi, Iran, (c 1200-1292), <em>The Orchard<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Tayeb Salih, Sudan, (b. 1929), <em>Season of Migration to the North<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Jose Saramago, Portugal, (b. 1922), <em>Blindness<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>William Shakespeare, England, (1564-1616), <em>Hamlet<\/em>; <em>King Lear<\/em>; <em>Othello<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Sophocles, Greece, (496-406 BC), <em>Oedipus the King<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Stendhal, France, (1783-1842), <em>The Red and the Black<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Laurence Sterne, Ireland, (1713-1768), <em>The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Italo Svevo, Italy, (1861-1928), <em>Confessions of Zeno<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Jonathan Swift, Ireland, (1667-1745), <em>Gulliver&#8217;s Travels<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Leo Tolstoy, Russia, (1828-1910), <em>War and Peace<\/em>; <em>Anna Karenina<\/em>; <em>The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Anton P Chekhov, Russia, (1860-1904), <em>Selected Stories<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Thousand and One Nights<\/em>, India\/Iran\/Iraq\/Egypt, (700-1500).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Mark Twain, United States, (1835-1910), <em>The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Valmiki, India, (c 300 BC), <em>Ramayana<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Virgil, Italy, (70-19 BC), <em>The Aeneid<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Walt Whitman, United States, (1819-1892), <em>Leaves of Grass<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Virginia Woolf, England, (1882-1941), <em>Mrs. Dalloway; _To the Lighthouse<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Marguerite Yourcenar, France, (1903-1987), <em>Memoirs of Hadrian<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things here are slow enough that I&#8217;m spending a little time bouncing around, and found something quite interesting &#8212; the top 100 books of all time, as chosen by 100 writers from 54 countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2036],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}